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Even if the original event wipes out 1 person in 10 currently living.
Even if famine takes another tenth, and disease takes 2 more.
Even if looting takes yet another, and another tenth expire due to lack of medicine.
Even if the population is reduced to 1 survivor out of 100 people, that is a lot of people.
Even if we have to reinvent the tools to make the tools to make the desired object.
Eventually someone would find a way to read cd's/dvd's, flashdrives, sd cards.
Some of it will survive, and eventually trickle back into the population.
In the meantime as long as there are solar chargers, people will find a way to charge battery's. Not to mention wind, hydro, and manpower.
Imagine 20 years after said event, a small tribe of 40 including adults, adolescents, and children gather after the evening meal. The sun has gone down, the "reader" brings out a charged ebook reader and reads aloud to the group. Be it JRR Tolkien, Dan Brown, or David Drake the group would be spellbound, educated, and entertained all at the same time.
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